Lana Tatour
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Academic. Settler colonialism, race, and decolonization in Palestine. she/her. Tweeting in personal capacity.
Stolen Gadigal land, Sydney.
Joined May 2017
My piece on the shrinking space for Palestine work. Our ability, as critical academics, to do our research, teaching &public engagement is an ongoing battle, one that engages key human rights concerns. Academic freedom is the bare minimum, not the end goal
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I can’t believe this has become so normalised.
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The rape of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centers is getting no coverage in Western media and Western politicians are silent.
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I can’t believe we are watching these images again. Nakba.
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They are assassinating doctors.
🚨Breaking: The Israeli army sniped Dr. Hossam Hamada, head of the Pathology Department at Al-Shifa Hospital. Currently, he is on the street, bleeding, with pleas from residents for immediate medical assistance to reach him and attempt to rescue him.
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They took over the children’s hospital, forced medical staff out, and didn’t even have the decency to evacuate the babies to safety and medical care. They just left them to die. They left the babies to die. Enough with this evil regime.
The Israeli military forced families to evacuate Al Nasr Hospital, leaving behind their premature babies in the intensive care unit. Israel refused to release the babies. The decomposed bodies of those babies have been found during this truce.
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“A house on the beach is not a dream”: An Israeli real estate company specialising in Jewish settlements in the West Bank is planning for the day after. This is beyond aspirational, their staff is already working on plans.
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They are killing people by creating the conditions for disease to spread. It’s part of what they call “thin out” the population in Gaza to the bare minimum.
A 1000 cases of documented hepatitis in #Gaza. The skin turning yellow is considered one of the major symptoms.
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South Africa’s legal team is warning the court not to treat Palestinians differently from other cases. They are well aware of the racial politics that shape this case and that the court operates within the context of anti-Palestinian racism.
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A reminder that Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages in torture centres.
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This is what Human Rights Watch has to say. They are a joke.
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Fascist Israel is already applying law criminalising how you consume news. Look at this terrified lady as they turn up in her home to check her phone and terrorise her. ‘48 Palestinians are now criminalised for simply sitting in their homes following the news on Gaza.
Gestapo already referring to the new law amendment in targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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This is how a genocide looks like. Entire families. In plural. Every single day.
🚨Last night, the Israeli army killed three children, their mother Tasneem Mhanna, and their father in #Gaza with a missile strike on their place of refuge. Two months ago, the Israeli army also killed Tasneem's sister, Sumaya, and her children in an airstrike. #GazaGenocide
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So Israel is attacking Lebanon and calling it “preventative attack.” And western media is likely to serve Israeli propaganda and report it as such. Let’s be clear, it’s an Israeli aggression. Israel is a threat and must be stopped.
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Read this & then read it again. Israel refused to let fuel into Gaza needed for the operation of hospitals, electricity & water in return of 50 of its civilians. This is not a regime that values life, it is a regime that is committed to genocide also on the expense of its people.
BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports that negotiations for the release of 50 hostages fell apart because Hamas demanded the delivery of fuel into Gaza.
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A professor from the law faculty at the Hebrew university did this. It is the same faculty & uni that put prof Shalhoub-Kevorkian at risk, leading to her arrest & investigation over her work on Palestinian rights & children . She had to resign out of fear over her safety.
Among those accused of beating the Palestinian is Dr Michael Wolfowicz from Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's department at Hebrew University.
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Israel is holding now 10,000 Palestinian prisoners at the moment. But on this, the West is silent.
Since October 7, Israel has arrested 4,000 labourers from Gaza and about 960 people in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say.
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This video killed me. The easiness—and sick pride—in which they blew up 30 houses in Shujayea. The moment they press the button and the screams of the people. Evil.
🔊 Listen closely to hear echoes of the final cries of innocent civilians being annihilated,an entire neighborhood in #Gaza erased over the heads of residents today. Yet,not a single entity in this world,at the very least,condemns it. The Israeli army’s brutality is beyond words!
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Jenin is not a complex situation. Israel is bombarding refugees, placing a siege on a refugee camp. Israel has no business being in Jenin. It is a colonising occupying force that must be held accountable for its crimes. Our people are not terrorists, they are colonized people.
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The level of sheer cruelty is beyond comprehension. First they deny water & electricity, & now they are bombing water tanks & solar panels. The Israeli regime is a criminal genocidal regime. They have broken every red line & the West is giving them the green light to do so.
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We, Israelis, are so moral. We massacre children, wipe entire families, colonise, dispossess, occupy & siege Palestinians, unleash army & settler mob to lynch and terrorise Palestinians. But we mourn the loss of every child & yet are demonised with apartheid & colonial slurs.
This is @Haaretz first page in Israel today. We Israelis, mourn the loss of every child killed in this fight. Theirs and ours. Show me another society grieving for the children of its so called enemy. Demonizing us with apartheid, and colonial slurs is unjust and inane.
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She was alive, trapped in the car with the bodies of family members, terrified. She was on the phone with her mother who tried to calm her down and get rescue. She died alone and terrified. Six years old. Evil, monstrous, heartless. And they call us human animals.
After she appealed to the world for help to save her, 12 days passed without communication. Today, the body of the martyr, the child Hind Rajab, and 5 members of her family were found. Her Grandfather said:. “We found the body of Hind and the rest of the family decomposed”
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Nothing can justify starving people. Nothing.
People are hungry and just desperate for food @UNRWA convoy in #Gaza City this week. 40% of the population at risk of famine. More regular supplies needed - require safe and sustainable #humanitarain access everywhere including to the North of Gaza
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It looks like the conversation has shifted from focusing on Israel’s atrocities and war crimes to one on antisemitism. It’s a classic deflection tactic. The struggle for Palestinian liberation is anticolonial & anti-racist. Keep your eyes on Israeli settler colonialism and racism.
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Israel banned Palestinians today from entering Al-Aqsa to allow 1800 settlers to enter the mosque.
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The news that U.S & EU are promising debt relief to Egypt in return for the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza show that the West is not only supporting genocide & ethnic cleansing, it is playing active role in orchestrating it & presenting it as humanitarian protection.
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Another Palestinian doctor tortured to death by Israel.
Haaretz confirms: Dr Iyad Rantisi — head of obstetrics at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, was tortured & killed by the israelis while in their custody
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Let’s be clear, motions in support of Palestine on campuses don’t make Jewish students unsafe, they make Zionist students uncomfortable.
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Israeli settlers lynched a Jewish 70 year old woman who was there with Palestinian in their field. She is now hospitalised with broken ribs& punctured lung. If this is what they do to a 70 year old Jewish woman, imagine the horror that Palestinians face and endure. This is Israel.
כל מה שאני יודע על הלינץ' באישה בת 70. הגר גפן. רעולי פנים הכו אות�� באלות עד זוב דם, ודפקו לה בראש אבנים. היא מאושפזת, הצלעות שלה שבורות, והריאה מנוקבת. יסמין, שהייתה שם, ראתה הכל. היא שיחזרה על סף בכי. אני ו @OrenZiv_ אספנו עדויות מ-6 אנשים, ושוחחנו עם המשטרה. >
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All eyes on Palestine. Israeli, soldiers, police & security forces—in coordination—are unleashing violence at terrifying levels in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Footages are horrifying. Palestinians are resisting. The one thing we can all do is amplify news/voices from Palestine.
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In 1948, Israel expelled the majority of Palestinians from their homeland and shot them when they tried to return to their homes. It’s now doing it again.
BREAKING| Israeli occupation forces opened gunfire at displaced Palestinians on their way back home in northern Gaza.
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UNRWA:Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as “for dual use”. The list includes basic& lifesaving items: anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders & ventilators, water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines & maternity kits.
#Gaza: an entire population depends on humanitarian assistance for survival. Very little comes in & restrictions increase. A truck loaded with aid has just been turned back because it had scissors used in children’s medical kits. Medical scissors are now added to a long list of
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"Our position paper is based on materials that we collected from public media outlets … We haven’t interviewed actual witnesses.” It’s even worse. The info from media outlets, which @PHRIsrael didn’t bother verifying, can all be traced back to briefing by government officials.
New Interview: I talked to Hadas Ziv of Physicians For Human Rights about the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, and how best to support those who survived.
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He was a Meretz Knesset member. Meretz is considered the most “leftist” Jewish party in Israel. When we say this genocide is the essence of what Israel is, of Israelis, we are not exaggerating.
🚨Israeli leftest hero & "Peace Icon", General Yair Golan, openly advocates here for starving Gazans to death:. "We should tell them: listen, until they're released, from our side, you will starve to death. This is COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE". Again, this is a LEFTEST Icon in Israel.
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They bulldozed civilians sheltering in a hospital and buried them alive. All with the silence, complicity, enabling of the West. They bulldozed civilians sheltering in a hospital and buried them alive. I’m beyond word. Ceasefire now. It is already too late.
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The levels of violence that Israeli police, military, and legal system is unleashing on Palestinians in all of Palestine these past few days are horrendous. The videos that are coming out are too difficult to bear.
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And that tells you all you need to know about universities empty land acknowledgments.
Here’s Charlotte Yellow Horn from Piikani Nation explaining before police areived that the University of Calgary students had permission from Blackfoot Confederacy to be camped there.
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Israel has ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals. Let that sink in. Stop the genocide now.
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There’s is no symmetry between the coloniser and the colonised. There’s Israeli colonial violence and Palestinian resistance.
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Textbook Nakba. Like in 1948, Israel will prevent Palestinians from returning to their homes and lands, making facts on the ground with imperial support. It was never about Hamas; it’s always about land and demography.
Breaking | Al-Jazeera: According to an Israeli official, Israel has informed mediators that it will not agree to the return of residents to the northern Gaza Strip.
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The sheer racism of it all. Our dead don’t count, only theirs. Reminder that there is no symmetry between colonizer & colonized, occupier & and occupied, oppressor & oppressed. They exercise violence to colonize, dispossess & eliminate, we struggle for liberation.
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Forcing Israeli ambassador, Tzipi Hotoveli, out of LSE campus is not antisemitism, it is a political act and a political act against apartheid and settler colonialism. The conflation of the two is deliberate to cover to colonial violence. We need more of these acts, not less.
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Read this testimony by Ward Kayyal, who was kidnapped—not arrested—with Muhammad Sa’adi, a 13 year-old boy from Umm al-Fahem by the notorious Israeli security unit, mista’arevim. His story isn’t unique. Minors, activists and lawyers are saying, are a target of police brutality.
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400 arrested so far and more than 200 injured. This is a war on Palestine.
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Looks like using starvation as a weapon of war is a normalised thing now.
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We want our people alive, not martyrs. Enough with this horror. Enough. Ceasefire now. It’s already too late.
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Israeli military raided Al-Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza after they effectively shut its operation. One violation of international law after another, with full impunity and active support of the West.
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Suddenly, boycott & sanctions are a legitimate strategy. No ‘why are you singling out Russia’ arguments, no whataboutism, no claims that boycott harms prospective peace & dialogue, that culture should be apolitical & about building bridges rather than being divisive.
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Palestinians have the right to resist Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid. Stop scrutinising Palestinians and focus on Israel’s crimes. There is no symmetry between occupier and occupied, colonizer and colonized.
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Israel destroyed all civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including hospitals. Now it’s time to destroy UNRWA, the most important humanitarian agency providing aid, food & shelter. The intention to collapse of UNRWA is a well calculated genocidal move, backed by the West.
The following 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 have suspended Unrwa funding based on Israeli claims that 12 of the agency's 30,000 employees took part in Hamas attacks:. 🇺🇸 US .🇨🇦 Canada.🇬🇧 UK.🇫🇮 Finland.🇦🇺 Australia.🇮🇹 Italy.🇳🇱 Netherlands. 🇳🇴 Norway and 🇮🇪 Ireland said they would
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Israel raided Al-Aqsa mosque today during Ramadan. Over 450 Palestinians arrested. Lawyers report of one bus after another arriving at the police station with detainees. Calls for demonstrations tomorrow in Nazareth, Tamra, and Umm al-Fahem. #UnityIntifada continues.
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Fuck the world that allows this to happen. Look at her, listen to her. No child—and no adult—should be subject to this horror, this loss, and this suffering.
A child fleeing to nowhere while carrying her little brother milk and diapers after their house was bombed by lsrael today in Gaza.
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Can we talk about who is actually unsafe.
Yusef, a student protester at UCLA, describes the attack at the Palestine Solidarity Encampment Last night. He received 12 staples to the back of his head after being hit by a wooden plank.
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The necropolitics of Israeli settler colonialism: Naser Abu Hamid, a Palestinian prisoner, dies in prison of cancer and deliberate medical negligence. Israel is refusing to release the body to his family, stating it will be holding it as a bargaining chip for future negotiations.
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Think about the barbaric uncivilized regime that destroys such beautiful historical landmarks. Only settlers with no actual love or attachment to the land and its history would do such things.
🚨The Israeli army destroyed a significant historical landmark in #Gaza, dating back to the Ottoman era, known as Hammam al-Samara (the Bath of the Samaritans or the Brown Bath). It was the last active hammam, located in the Zeitoun Quarter of the Old City . Historical Genocide
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The Palestinians are rising EVERYWHERE in historic Palestine. One struggle against settler colonialism. This is how decolonization looks like. #FreePalestine.
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Fellow academics, it’s never ok to speak at Israeli universities. With Israel’s brutal war on Palestinians & Israeli universities being part of it, do the bare minimum and comply with Palestinian call for academic boycott. It doesn’t take much. #BDS.
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While everyone is busy reporting on alleged gender-based violence during October 7, there are reports of Palestinian male prisoners being subject to rape. There are actual survivors & multiple witnesses. Western media & human rights organisations did not bother investigating.
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Our shabab putting a Palestinian flag on an Israeli police car 🔥 🔥.
I think I’ve found it. the video that tops all videos. ولعت 🔥🔥🔥
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And here it is.
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One of the more racist, anti-Palestinian, & Islamophobic texts I read in a while, coming from “the left”. Patronising, paternalistic, settler-centric, demeaning of Palestinians, & anti-colonial struggles (historical & present). From the executive director of +972. Appalling.
An excellent statement, from the left and for the left, about what some in the left have gotten wrong about Israel-Palestine, why it's wrong, and how we can get better in how we discuss the horrid reality on the ground.
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Israel is bombing Gaza, the most densely populated territory in the world. Half of the population in Gaza are children. Gaza is under cruel siege for the past 15 years, with no no way to escape for shelter. All of its two million residents are target.
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We should pay close attention to Israeli government links:.
Earlier this week a coalition of settler organizations - generously funded by the state of #Israel - held the 'Practical Preparation for #Gaza Settlement Conference.' We would be mistaken to dismiss these ideas as fringe, as those are thepolitical forces that managed to colonize
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Israeli police announced a big operation tomorrow called ‘Law and Order’ in which it would arrest 500 ‘48 Palestinians in order to reclaim Israeli ‘deterrence.’ So far, 1200 were arrested including minors. This is clearly an act of punishment.
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They couldn’t find evidence, so Israel (Shabak) tortured the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital into coerced confession. They are arresting medical teams & torturing them, and we will see a wave of confessions. This is where we are at. Release all Palestinian hostages now.
"Gaza hospital director admits Hamas used medical complex as operational hub". After being threatened with yet another helping of filet mignon, hospital director confesses not a single Gaza hospital employee ever studied medicine:
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Events on Palestine in our campuses or teaching Palestine in the classroom do not make Jewish students and staff unsafe, they make Zionist students and staff uncomfortable. Zionists support genocide and then have the audacity to complain about safety.
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A doctor raped to death. And the world goes on. This doesn’t even make front page in western media.
Likely raped to death. A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics. Likely raped to death. The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and
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The executive director of the +972 relishes on the return of four Israeli hostages. Not a word about the 210 Palestinians brutally massacred. The Israeli “left” is a joke. People need to stop platforming them.
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Does this look like clashes to you? I see state-sponsored pogroms. Horrifying. #PalestineUnderAttack.
Scenes of absolute horror as Israeli mobs descend upon the streets of Haifa, attacking Palestinians and destroying Palestinians’ cars.
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Zionism is settler colonialism, racism, apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, destruction, cruelty. There is no justice for Palestine and no humane future for all without the end of Zionism.
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So many academics teach and cite Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, and yet this moment shows their true colour.
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Israel fines Palestinians when it demolishes their homes making them “compensate” the state. And so, many Palestinians demolish their own homes to avoid hefty fines. Ali Burban died today while self-demolishing a house in Beit Hanina in Jerusalem.
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Over 1 million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah. Israel is going to bomb what it claimed to be a safe zone, densely populated with displaced families. The goal is to push them to Egypt. There’s no where to go. The butchery and ethnic cleansing continues.
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Israel is moving forward with its plans to forcibly expel Palestinians. Haaretz reports that some countries in Latin America & Africa expressed willingness to receive Palestinian refugees from Gaza in return for payment and “other stuff” (weapons and surveillance technologies?).
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The colonized don’t care which government is leading their oppression.
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I’m seeing tweets that refer only to Israeli settlers in the West Bank as settlers. All Israeli Jews are settlers—in Yaffa, Lydd, the Jalil, the triangle & Naqab—just like all those in Australia who are not Indigenous are settlers. Decolonization demand reckoning with this fact.
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The third largest party in Israel now is the equivalent of the KKK. Guided by fascist Jewish supremacy principals, they are the political front of settler militias and settler violence & terrorism against Palestinians including lynching, pogroms & attacks on property.
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I cannot believe that we are watching children dying of starvation and dehydration, and that Israel is allowed to continue with full impunity.
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In an official statement by Aljazeera, the network accuses Israel of cold bloodedly assassinating its Palestinian veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and calls to hold Israel accountable. Reports that Akleh was deliberately targeted by a sniper.
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Israel has imposed closure on the West Bank as it marks Pesach, with Gaza under brutal siege since 2007. Millions of Palestinians under closure and 10 killed by Israel in the last week as Israelis celebrate the holiday of freedom. Settler colonialism and apartheid at work.
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One video after another of parents mourning dead children and children crying for their parents and siblings. They just keep coming. Daily massacres and there is no end in sight. It’s clear there are no red lines. Israel is committing a genocide with total impunity.
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Israel is creating a media blackout in Gaza. No electricity, water, food, medical supplies. It is destroying Gaza neighbourhood by neighbourhood and massacring the population. Support for Israel’s actions in Gaza is a support for genocide.
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Wolfowicz is a graduate of Macquarie University's MA program in International Security Studies and Policing, Intelligence & Counter-Terrorism. He is also listed as a member of Deakin uni’s Addressing Violent Extremism & Radicalisation to Terrorism Research Network @AvertResNet.
Among those accused of beating the Palestinian is Dr Michael Wolfowicz from Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's department at Hebrew University.
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Israel is not merely an apartheid state, it is a settler colonial state that practices apartheid (and permanent occupation). It’s important to get it right, even though international law considers apartheid a crime again humanity as opposed to settler colonialism.
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This is horrifying but let’s be clear, the genocide in Gaza would look the same also without AI machine. The genocide is an Israeli decision, regardless of AI.
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza. An investigation by @yuval_abraham, in partnership with @mekomit.
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War crimes. Israel plans to blow up two schools intended as shelters in order to make it harder for Palestinians in Gaza to find shelter. What would you call that?.
Official sources: #Israel has informed Int’l orgs that it intends to blow up two schools: Al-Buraq & Al-Aqsa.These were among centres being prepared to shelter families whose homes were bombed. Nowhere to go. #IsraeliCrimes. @IntlCrimCourt.
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I was just had an interview on ABC radio and was asked to give also the point of view of Israel. My reply: saying that Israel is violating international law, committing war crimes and crimes again humanity is not a Palestinian perspective. It a fact. Israel’s impunity just stop.
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A horrifying massacre of the Abu Shari’ya/Al Hasayna family. 93 people. They are not numbers.
أسماء ضحايا مجزرة عائلة أبو شريعة/الحساينة في حي الصبرة غرب مدينة غزة:. 1- مختار عائله ابوشريعة/الحساينه .الشهيد / فتحي فراج ابوشريعه ( ابوعبدالله) وزوجته وابناؤه.2- الشهيدة / ختام ابوشريعه .3- الشهيد / عبدالله فتحي ابوشريعه.4- الشهيدة / بينه فتحي ابوشريعه.5- الشهيد/ احمد فراج
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Human Rights Watch (@hrw) are refusing to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, focusing only on humanitarian aid. The 2.3 million residents of Gaza need ceasefire, not making their genocide “more humanitarian”. Anything less than calling for a ceasefire is complicity with genocide.
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Beware of the civil war narrative to describe what is happening in Lydd, Yaffa, Haifa, Akka & elsewhere. It masks colonial power relations. Jewish militias & the Israeli settler state declared a war on its colonized “citizens,” who need to protect themselves.
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If anyone had a doubt about the intentions of Israel, read this tweet by Netanyahu. We have been telling all along that this is a war against Palestinians, about land, and about forced expulsion and displacement. It was always a story of Nakba.
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Jewish mob calling to meet at Bat Yam at 6pm on way to Jaffa. They remind to bring knifes, fuel & matches. This is not aberration. Israeli police & army are backing Jewish militias as part of their strategy to terrorise ‘48 into submission & punish them for their resistance.
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And this is coming from a journalist who has been covering and experiencing genocide for over a year now.
What’s happening in the Jabalia refugee camp can be summed up as a rapid extermination mission; we have never seen anything like this.
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Every year, as Israelis celebrate “Independence Day” and ethnic cleansing, ‘48 Palestinians hold a March of Return to a different village. This year it was Miyar. We shall return.
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CNN report claiming sexual violence on October 7 relied on non-credible witnesses, some with undisclosed ties to Israeli govt. A must read on why we should question any allegations coming from Israel and demand that evidence be credible.
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UAE sentenced Fida Kiwan, ‘48 Palestinian photographer from Haifa, to death for Cocaine possession while on work trip. Her confession was taken under torture. See statement by her family and amplify the call and campaign to free Fida.
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#Gaza half an hour ago. Watch this. This is how settler colonial genocidal violence look like.
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